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This doesn’t bode well for any human base there does it? We will have these same abrasive dust problems on human movers and machines.
by Mistletoe 11mo ago
This doesn’t bode well for any human base there does it? We will have these same abrasive dust problems on human movers and machines.
- pfdietz 11mo agoThe dust on the Moon will be even worse.
- dylan604 11mo agowhy? there's less wind. supposedly, the astronaut footprints are expected to remain intact for quite a long time because of it.
- pfdietz 11mo agoExactly. There is no wind. All the little solidified impact glass particles, with their razor sharp microscopic edges, have not been smoothed by even the slightest wind erosion.
- keyringlight 11mo agoI recall reading that a major candidate for any early colony is in lava tubes, dust on the would be one factor, but radiation shielding is another. Either you have to ship materials from Earth and build them, consume whatever is available and useful locally, or make use of whatever Mars-nature provides. If you can get away with lighter materials to build below surface then it seems better compared to more durability/shielding requirements above.
- adrianN 11mo agoHumans are better at cleaning than robots.